Associations to the word «Tradition»

Wiktionary

TRADITION, noun. A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.
TRADITION, noun. A commonly held system.
TRADITION, noun. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
TRADITION, verb. (obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

Dictionary definition

TRADITION, noun. An inherited pattern of thought or action.
TRADITION, noun. A specific practice of long standing.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats